Once again, my friend and I are doing a writing challenge! The terms are a little different, and we’re going a little easier on ourselves, but the general end goal is to have written 100,000 words this year.

This year’s writing challenge will be handled as follows:

1. Every week, we are to write 500 words a day for at least 4 days a week. Those daily updates will need to be made to show that we are pacing ourselves appropriately and doing our due diligence.
2. Content is whatever we choose it to be, so long as we write 500 words. That can be essays, extended poems, short stories, or piecemeal work on a novel.
3. A week will be Sunday to Saturday. We will start January 5th and continue until December 20th.
4. One or more compilation posts will be created and edited together to be posted on the last day of the month. The compilation posts will be the ones linked to each other and in an eventual page dedicated to the writing challenge, to make following along easier.

Because we are bums that are both still working on edits for the 2023 writing challenge, we decided to make the challenge a bit lighter this year. Also, if we don’t finish a story, we won’t push ourselves to continue posting to finish through 2026, so the end of any longer form stories may not be available.

Happy New Year! 🙂